The Open-Source Coffee Table Book: Publishing Pop Culture in the Digital Age
Why should techies have all the fun? The few publishers to embrace open content focus primarily on technical books. But an increasing number of artists and pop culture creators are seeking alternatives to copy restricting their works. What works for Cory Doctorow’s science fiction can also work for graphic novels, art and coffee table books. Unfortunately, publishers who historically specialize in popular culture – many of which are subsidiaries of the same media conglomerates pushing DRM and extending copyright enforcement – are unwilling to pursue the open-source model. Will existing open-source publishers expand into pop culture to exploit this niche? Will new publishers emerge to serve both pop culture markets and artists?
Nina Paley
Nina Paley Productions, LLC
Nina Paley is the director of the acclaimed animated feature film “Sita Sings the Blues,” which is about to release under a Creative Commons Share-Alike license. “Sita” has screened internationally at almost 100 film festivals and won awards including Best Feature at Annecy and Avignon, Best Script at Athens, Greece, and an IFP Gotham Award. Wired called her a “One-Woman Pixar” and Roger Ebert said of her film: “I am enchanted. I am swept away. I am smiling from one end of the film to the other. It is astonishingly original.” Nina is also a longtime veteran of syndicated comic strips, creating Fluff (Universal Press Syndicate), The Hots (King Features), and her own alternative weekly Nina’s Adventures. Nina teaches at Parsons School of Design in Manhattan and is a 2006 Guggenheim Fellow. She is currently Artist-in-Residence at QuestionCopyright.org.
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Videos may be found here: toccon.blip.tv There’s a lot of copy, so copies are going up as quickly as they can.
Is there a video of the keynote available?
Wasn’t an appropriate end talk. The day tailed off rather after a fine start.